The first table below looks at the demand for OSSEC skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OSSEC over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSSEC
Rank 854 898 876
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -22
Permanent jobs citing OSSEC 8 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.007% 0.001% 0.004%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.131% 0.017% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 5
Average salary £33,500 - £26,500
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 - -
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6101 5720 5741
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.645% 4.740% 4.614%
Number of salaries quoted 4727 4743 4554
Average salary £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -

OSSEC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OSSEC within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

OSSEC Jobs Demand Trend

OSSEC
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OSSEC within the UK.

OSSEC Salary Trend

OSSEC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OSSEC over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

OSSEC Salary Histogram

OSSEC
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSSEC within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +32 8 £33,500 -
Yorkshire - 5 £42,250 -
West Yorkshire - 5 £42,250 -
Leeds - 5 £42,250 -
East of England - 3 £33,500 -
Cambridge - 3 £33,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £33,500 -

OSSEC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing OSSEC also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OSSEC.

1 24 (82.76%) Linux
2 23 (79.31%) Puppet
3 18 (62.07%) Apache
3 18 (62.07%) MySQL
4 17 (58.62%) VMware
5 16 (55.17%) Firewall
6 12 (41.38%) Hibernate
6 12 (41.38%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (41.38%) TDD
6 12 (41.38%) Pair Programming
6 12 (41.38%) Java
6 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
6 12 (41.38%) Windows
6 12 (41.38%) Tomcat
6 12 (41.38%) Python
6 12 (41.38%) JMS
6 12 (41.38%) IntelliJ
6 12 (41.38%) Cisco
6 12 (41.38%) SAN
6 12 (41.38%) NetApp
6 12 (41.38%) Nagios
6 12 (41.38%) Capistrano
6 12 (41.38%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (41.38%) TeamCity
6 12 (41.38%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (41.38%) Groovy
6 12 (41.38%) Scala
6 12 (41.38%) Ruby
6 12 (41.38%) Ajax
6 12 (41.38%) Spring

OSSEC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing OSSEC also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OSSEC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (41.38%) Hibernate
1 12 (41.38%) JMS
1 12 (41.38%) Ajax
1 12 (41.38%) Spring
1 12 (41.38%) JPA
2 6 (20.69%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 18 (62.07%) Apache
2 12 (41.38%) Tomcat
2 12 (41.38%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (20.69%) nginx
4 4 (13.79%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 12 (41.38%) SAN
3 6 (20.69%) VLAN
3 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.69%) DNS
3 6 (20.69%) SSL
3 6 (20.69%) BGP
3 6 (20.69%) LAN
3 6 (20.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) MySQL
2 6 (20.69%) Big Data
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.79%) OLAP
4 2 (6.897%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.897%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.897%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) IntelliJ
1 12 (41.38%) Capistrano
1 12 (41.38%) TeamCity
1 12 (41.38%) Maven
1 12 (41.38%) GitHub
2 11 (37.93%) Subversion
3 7 (24.14%) Git (software)
4 2 (6.897%) Talend Open Studio
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Software Developer
1 12 (41.38%) Software Engineer
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Open Source
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 4 (13.79%) Mathematics
2 4 (13.79%) Physics
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) CentOS
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (20.69%) UNIX
4 2 (6.897%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile Software Development
1 12 (41.38%) TDD
1 12 (41.38%) Pair Programming
1 12 (41.38%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (20.69%) Load Balancing
2 6 (20.69%) Network Design
2 6 (20.69%) E-Commerce
3 5 (17.24%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) Change Management
4 4 (13.79%) Data Security
4 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
4 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (13.79%) SIEM
5 3 (10.34%) Change Control
6 2 (6.897%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.897%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
1 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
1 12 (41.38%) Python
1 12 (41.38%) Groovy
1 12 (41.38%) Scala
1 12 (41.38%) Ruby
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.69%) Postfix
2 6 (20.69%) Sendmail
2 6 (20.69%) vSphere
2 6 (20.69%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Puppet
2 12 (41.38%) Nagios
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) VMware
2 12 (41.38%) Cisco
2 12 (41.38%) NetApp
3 8 (27.59%) HP
4 6 (20.69%) SolarWinds
4 6 (20.69%) TippingPoint
4 6 (20.69%) WSO2
4 6 (20.69%) EMC
4 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
4 6 (20.69%) CheckPoint
4 6 (20.69%) Tripwire
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Akamai
6 2 (6.897%) Netezza
6 2 (6.897%) Talend
6 2 (6.897%) Vertica
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